Asado: A Journey Through Argentine BBQ

On the precipice of a “quarter life crisis”, I left my job as a management consultant in the States seeking answers to many questions—from the clichéd “what is the meaning of life” to others I didn’t even realize I had. I decided to take the overdue opportunity to explore my long time passion, cuisine. But instead of using schools or books, I decided to learn by traveling to the countries themselves.

This journey began in Argentina where I was first overwhelmed by everything I had to eat. It started with learning about the cuts of meat and stuffing my face with greasy chori-pans off the street, but quickly evolved to learning how to roast entire racks of ribs and butterflied pigs over a fire for four hours and hosting my own Asados.

But, the food was just a part of the experience. There was this new culture to explore, the people of Argentina to learn from, and amongst it all was me, and my journey. Overtime, my writings, learnings, and experiments began to intertwine into a story. That story later became this book—Argentine BBQ or Asado, Argentine Culture, and a piece of me.